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most citedMeasurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

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astro-ph.IM2009★ 65 cited

Optimal Extraction of Fibre Optic Spectroscopy

R. Sharp, M. N. Birchall

We report an optimal extraction methodology, for the reduction of multi-object fibre spectroscopy data, operating in the regime of tightly packed (and hence significantly overlappi…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 87 cited

Characterization and on-sky demonstration of an integrated photonic spectrograph for astronomy

N. Cvetojevic, J. S. Lawrence, S. C. Ellis +3

We present results from the first on-sky demonstration of a prototype astronomical integrated photonic spectrograph (IPS) using the Anglo-Australian Telescope near-infrared imaging…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 39 cited

MMTF: The Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter

S. Veilleux, B. J. Weiner, D. S. N. Rupke +8

This paper describes the Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter (MMTF) on the Magellan-Baade 6.5-meter telescope. MMTF is based on a 150-mm clear aperture Fabry-Perot (FP) etalon that op…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 23 cited

An investigation of lucky imaging techniques

Andrew Smith, Jeremy Bailey, J. H. Hough +1

We present an empirical analysis of the effectiveness of frame selection (also known as Lucky Imaging) techniques for high resolution imaging. A high-speed image recording system h…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 16 cited

The Science Case for PILOT I: Summary and Overview

J. S. Lawrence, M. C. B. Ashley, J. Bailey +40

PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. Conditions at D…